Opera seria (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɔːpera ˈsɛːrja]; plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical...
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of late 18th-century opera is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage...
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Trespolo tutore, by Alessandro Stradella, in 1679. Opera buffa was a parallel development to opera seria, and arose in reaction to the so-called first reform...
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de la ópera". La Opera (in Spanish). 17 August 2013. Alier (2011, p. 36) Alier (2011, pp. 39–40) Alier (2011, p. 37) Atlas ilustrado de la ópera (2011...
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Aria (redirect from Opera aria)
thought that both opera buffa and opera seria had strayed too far from what opera should really be, and seemed unnatural. The jokes of opera buffa were threadbare...
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comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria. It quickly...
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new, more elevated form of opera was necessary. Their ideas would give birth to a genre, opera seria (literally "serious opera"), which would become dominant...
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Gioachino Rossini (category Italian opera composers)
a peak the opera buffa tradition he inherited from masters such as Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello. He also composed opera seria works such as...
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Thus, his early works follow the traditional forms of the Italian opera seria and opera buffa as well as the German Singspiel. In his maturity, according...
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Serse (redirect from Xerxes (opera))
(Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛrse]; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London...
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Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi (HWV 19) is an opera seria in three acts composed for the first Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel. The...
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such as Handel and Gluck, opting to work in foreign traditions such as opera seria. Some Baroque composers, such as Reinhard Keiser, did try to challenge...
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Alcina (category Opera seria)
Alcina (HWV 34) is a 1735 opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by...
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La clemenza di Tito (category Opera seria)
La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino...
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Ariadne auf Naxos (category 1912 operas)
of high opera seria points up one of the work's principal themes: the competition between high and low art for the public's attention. The opera was originally...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (category Male opera composers)
ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using...
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Giulio Cesare (category Opera seria)
Egypt'; HWV 17), commonly known as Giulio Cesare, is a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy...
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operatic works are described as dramma per musica, roughly equivalent to opera seria. Key: music completely lost; music preserved (at least in part) 51 items...
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Pietro Metastasio (category Italian opera librettists)
Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi...
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Gluck was already famous for his reforms of Italian opera, which had replaced the old opera seria with a much more dramatic and direct style of music...
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Intermezzo (redirect from Opera intermezzo)
scenes of an opera seria. These intermezzi could be substantial and complete works themselves, though they were shorter than the opera seria which enclosed...
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in different ways, not always in terms of stylistic rules. Some, like opera seria, refer to traditions identified by later historians, and others, like...
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Gaetano Donizetti (redirect from Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
with his comic operas, the serious ones failing to attract significant audiences. His first notable success came with an opera seria, Zoraida di Granata...
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Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian libretto was...
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opera. The first work in which the composer tried to reform the excesses of Italian opera seria. 1762 Artaxerxes (Thomas Arne). The first opera seria...
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Antonio Salieri (category Italian opera composers)
Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process. Armida was translated...
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century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe (except France), attracting foreign composers such as Handel. Opera seria was the most prestigious...
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Tancredi (category Opera seria)
Tancredi is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or heroic opera) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi (who was also to...
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Mitridate, re di Ponto (category Opera seria)
Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mithridates, King of Pontus), K. 87 (74a), is an opera seria in three acts by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by...
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Agrippina (HWV 6) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the 1709–10 Venice...
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